CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Before the Law: Domesticating Migrants in the Migration Bureaucracy 30
6. Chapter 2. Between a Knife and the Law: Human Rights and Expertise in the Migration Bureaucracy 60
7. Chapter 3. The Power of Zakon: Russian Soldier, Tajik Migrant, Bureaucrat 86
8. Chapter 4. A Colonial Situation: Heroic Migrants and Sedentary Locals 113
9. Chapter 5. Feeding the Ferocious White Men: Hospitality in the Bureaucracy of Migration Management 132
10. Chapter 6. The Ordering of the Tajik State 150
11. Conclusion. Bureaucracy in Context: Physical, Historical, (Post)Colonial 173
12. Notes 189
13. References 199
14. Index 215
15. Acknowledgments 225